2009/1/13 Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org>: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Henk te Sligte wrote: >> I thought it might be a good idea to develop an applet (and engine) >> for a random purpose, just to get familiar with Plasma, I'm thinking >> about an applet which displays the status from a sabnzbd server >> (http://www.sabnzbd.org). The API of sabnzbd is quite good, so I can >> concentrate at learning Plasma. > > neat, i didn't even know about sabnzbd (and... how the HECK do you pronounce > that?) It's a great project to download nzb's, and, instead of the other common usenet leechers, it's cross-platform. But yes, the name is quite hard to pronounce (I simply say it as I read it (in dutch)). > >> After that, I'm not really sure what to do next. I have seen some >> tasklists (e.g. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Tasks), maybe >> it's a good idea to pick one of those and see how far I get. But I'm >> not really sure about all of this. > > i really need to update that page again. people keep racing ahead so quickly > that the page needs constant tending. i'm a poor gardener, i'm afraid. > anyways, i'm happy to point you in the direction of "stuff that needs > attention". Well, I wasn't planning on starting to hack away with that page as a reference ;-) As soon as I get closer to the center of Plasma, I would simply ask for things to do. > > something that would be relatively simple but let you play with the "guts" of > plasma a bit is adding a standardized way for plasmoids to show a message to > the user. > > this would probably mean creating a small Plasma::Message class or (even re- > using Plasma::ToolTipContent perhaps?) and allow plasmoids to queue such > messages with the Applet class. the Applet class would then display it in a > "plasma" way (what does that mean? i don't know for sure, but we can work that > out together; perhaps an overlay on the plasmoid itself if it is big enough, > perhaps a tooltip type thing, perhaps a notification in the system tray,...?) Sounds nice to me :) I'll bug you on irc as soon as I feel I can do something like that. > > i have a whole list of such things just waiting to be plucked and fixed ;) > others on this mailing list also have their own pet lists too... Well, that's exactly why I sent the mail. I knew there should be small jobs, but it's quite hard to find such things for a newcomer :) > > and there's also bugs.kde.org which has oodles of feature requests. > >> I have a couple of questions: Is the process which I have in mind a >> good idea? > > i'd say it's a perfect path. > >> Am I too optimistic, because Plasma is too hard > > nah, there's something in there for all skill levels. it was built to be easy > to start hacking on. > >> (as far as >> I've seen, it's quite readable, and it just makes sense). > > thanks =) > >> I know there >> are some mentors for KDE, is there also a mentor for Plasma, or can I >> do the learning process on my own? > > you can do the learning process on your own, but you are *more* than welcome > to ask questions here on the mailing list or in #plasma-devel. the only stupid > question is the unasked question. > >> Feel free to comment on anything I wrote, I sent this mail basically >> on two purposes: To get to know you guys a bit better, and, to be >> honest, I'd like to be a bit in the picture. Maybe someone has a small >> bug which should be easy to fix, and good to learn. > > heh. those ones tend to get fixed fast. we eat bugs for breakfast around here. Well, I'm quite satisfied with my pancakes as breakfast, but well, everyone has his own taste :-P > > here's a really trivial one, though: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179563 I looked to it, and it seems quite easy to fix, I already found the file which contains the strings. I don't have a svn-account yet, but I'll try to find someone on IRC who can help me out.
Thanks for the friendly mail btw :) I feel like I'm getting a littlebit closer in the team already :) > > most of the others after that one on the plasma bug list probably aren't great > starter jobs. > > welcome to Plasma .... > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > humru othro a kohnu se > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software > > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
